Group
of disorder of movement and posture because of defects and disease of
brain, the damage may occur in Uterus during gestation, during birth
process, or during he first few years of life. Cerebral Palsy is most
common motor disorder in infants and children and is the commonest cause
of physical disabilities in childhood.
The
word cerebral means having to do with the brain The word palsy means a
weakness or problem in the way a person moves or how he positions his
body. A Child with CP might have trouble controlling the muscles in his
body. Normally, the brain tells the rest of the body exactly what to do
and when to do it. But because CP affects the brain, depending on what
part of the brain is affected, a child might not be able to walk, talk,
eat, or play the same way most children do.
Classification of Cerebral Palsy
There
are five types of cerebral palsy: spastic (say: spass-tick), athetoid
(say: ath-uh-toid), ataxic (say: ay-tak-sick), Hypotonic and mixed
(combination of any), and further catagorised according to topographic
distribution Quadriplegia, Diplegia and Hemiplegia
Signs and Symptoms :
The
most common type of CP is spastic. A kid with spasticity can’t relax
his muscles or his muscles may be stiff. Athetoid CP affects a kid’s
ability to control his muscles. This means that the arms or legs that
are affected by athetoid CP may flutter and move suddenly. A kid with
ataxic CP has problems with balance and coordination.
Some
kids with CP use wheelchairs and others walk with the help of crutches
or braces. In some cases, a kid’s speech may be affected or he might not
be able to speak at all. To learn more about CP, what causes it, and
what living with CP is like, keep reading.
Cerebral
palsy is very difficult and challenging to all sciences of healing.
Allopathic system has no effective medicine to help except
physiotherapy, surgical corrections, Botox or Botulinum Toxins and many
psychological aids. But it has helped very little.
So
my Doctor stressed on looking into alternative systems. Finally, out of
all systems, by comparison, we chose homeopathic system, and it gave us
the most satisfactory results. After treating about 2000 CP patients,
Specialist finalised few observatory conclusions. I summaries them
below.
- In selected cases homeopathy gives excellent results.
- The improvement, in most of the cases, starts from the 1st month of treatment and 2nd month of treatment in others.
- The earlier the patient comes; the success chances are more.
In cerebral palsy, the motor area of cerebral cortex is damaged along with other areas of brain.
The
commonest causes are birth injuries, obstetrical complications,
high-grade fevers, and prolonged jaundice at birth, head injury, Chronic
Infections to mother and genetically aberrations.
So, our job is to repair the damaged area maximum possible. The exact extent of damage caused is difficult to assess, but CAT scan, MRI, PET, Psychological tests, I.Q. tests, clinical sensory motor developmental mile stones and other tests can give rough idea about the damage.
The
brain development normally completes within 5 years of age. CP child
has damaged brain, so it develops very slowly. It is mostly; motor area
damaged, so motor mile stone comes alter. Depending upon the severity of
damage, the development will occur.
Apart
from the brain damage, the poor management and spasticity adds to
orthopedic disabilities. These children have low resistant power, so
gets frequent infections of URI (cold, cough and fever), diarrhea,
malaria etc.
Now, How homeopathy can help these children?
Homeopathy helps these children in many ways.
Firstly,
it improves I.Q., which no other system can do. It improves
neuromuscular abilities, so motor milestones start appearing faster. It
improves in swallowing, neck handling, sitting, standing and walking. It
improves in understanding of the child and calculating capacity,
schooling capacity.
Secondly, it completely stops recurrent infections. So deterioration of the child stops and regains immunity to fight diseases.
Thirdly
it improves cognitive ability of children also helps to improve
associate psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, conduct
disorders and hyperkinesis.
It helps in improving flaccidity, spasticity of limb muscles, squint deglutition. (Hence food taking)
Who are the most suitable candidates for homeopathic treatment?
- The earlier the age, the better success. Results are the best between 1½ years to 5 years. The success rate in selected patients is above 90%. Between the patients of age group 5 – 10 years, the success rate is 50% – 60% and above 10 years, the success rate is only 10% – 15 %.
- The severity of the damage: the most sever damage has success rate of 20% – 30% and mild damage has success rate of almost 95%. The criteria of severity are :
- I.Q. less than 40 are severe, I.Q. between 40 – 70 is moderate, and I.Q.-70 – 80 is mild.
- I.Q. less than 40 are severe, I.Q. between 40 – 70 is moderate, and I.Q.-70 – 80 is mild.
- Damage of special sense is serious. Blindness, cataract, deafness are incurable.
- Absence of neck holding even at age of 4 – 5 years is poor indicator.
- Genetic diseases: Down Syndrome (Mongols), Rett Syndrome, Prader Willi Syndrome and others chromosome abnormalities improvement is slow if children is above 5 year of age.
- Child completely bedridden even at age of 3 years has poor chances
Fortunately, severely damaged children are statistically less. So, mostly children with mild and moderate damage are the best helped by homeopathy.
Homeopathy can help in majority of cases. The improvement in most cases starts within first two months of treatment. The maximum benefit can be derived within 12 – 14 months of treatment, in majority of cases. The basic idea of homeopathic treatment is to put the majority of children to the normal school. So for them ideally treatment should start from 2 to 2½ years of age. So that, at the age of 3 – 4 years child is fit for schooling. With homeopathy, we need no orthopedic corrections or operations. It does not need vigorous physiotherapy also.
